Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 3

The Indians waited in the trees until many deer came; they shot at the deer, which fell like wild ducks when the rice is ripe.

Who acts: Indians, many deer, deer, rice · What happens: wait, come, shoot, fall, be · To what, where: trees, deer

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. the Little People of the Senecas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, many deer, deer, rice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Indians	det
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waited	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deer	amod
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 shot	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shot	nsubj
13	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 deer	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 deer	det
16	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shot	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shot	conj
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 ducks	case
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ducks	amod
22	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fell	obl
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 ripe	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rice	det
25	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ripe	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ripe	cop
27	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fell	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the Indians	the trees		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
2	come	past	many deer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shoot	past	deer	the deer		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at deer=Destination
4	fall	past			like wild ducks; which nsubj	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	the rice		ripe property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 3